'Harry Potter' Is Becoming a Stage Show!

By JACKIE WILLIS

December 20, 2013

Christmas has come early for those fans of Harry Potter! J.K. Rowling has announced that she will be bringing the wizardry of her book-turned-movies to the stage!

Within the next two years, the play is set to open in London's West End, The Daily Mailreports. According to the U.K. news agency, Rowling will act as a co-producer alongside theater vets Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender.

But the play will tell a story yet to be told. The stage production is said to be focusing on "Harry Potter's early years as an orphan and outcast," and will "offer a unique insight into the heart and mind of the now legendary young wizard. A seemingly ordinary boy, but one for whom destiny has plans."

This isn't the first time Rowling has been asked to turn her beloved stories into plays, but she says Friedman and Callender's approach was "the only one that really made sense to me, and which had the sensitivity, intensity and intimacy I thought appropriate for bringing Harry's story to the stage."